Approved ~ MJM
This manaconda is constricting the Sunshine State.
Thought California’s flotilla of “sea penises” wasn’t phallic enough? Enter the “penis snake,” a similarly manhood-shaped invader that’s causing a hubbub in Florida.
“Very little is known about these animals in the wild,” Florida herpetologist Coleman Sheehy told Creative Loafing of the member-evoking creature, which first surfaced in the state two years ago. Authorities had captured a 2-foot-long specimen at the C-4 Canal, near Miami International Airport, and put it in captivity, where it unfortunately died of starvation.
Its remains were subsequently sent to the Florida Museum of Natural History, where DNA analysis identified the penile critter as a caecilian, a type of virtually blind, legless amphibian that resides in the jungles of South America and Asia. This particular species, which is endemic to Venezuela and Colombia, had never been observed in the US before, Creative Loafing reported.
“This was not on my radar,” exclaimed Sheehy. “I didn’t think we’d one day find a caecilian in Florida. So, this was a huge surprise.”
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